David Duke refers to Ron Paul as "our king"

[Oilwellian]

A week ago, I wrote an article listing the many reasons why an early advertising campaign would benefit Ron Paul. How Ron Paul needed to break through the mainstream media black out and the biased coverage and go directly to the American people. I suggested running a few short commercials late at night as an experiment. Well, we no longer have that option. The neocons have made a calculated political move, which will affect only Ron Paul. They are closing primaries in many states so that only people, who have registered as Republicans by October 12th, will be able to vote.

If this were a chess game, the neocons have just put our king in check. We must come up with a good response immediately to stay in the game.

http://www.davidduke.com/general/register-republican-by-october-12th-or-you-cant-vote-for-ron-paul_2877.html#more-2877

[TheUniverse]

1. Ron Paul has some very scary supporters

It seems his voting block is made up of Christian anti government extremists, white power groups, 911 truthers, and isolationists. I'd hate to go to a Ron Paul Rally.

[DJ MEW]

4. He was on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a while back

they referred to his supporters as gun totting, pot smoking hippies. He actually seemed like a decent candidate, although he is against public education and several other important government run institutions that we need. No matter how loud libertarians get I will never agree with the idea of privatization as the answer.

[TheUniverse]

5. He is far from a decent candidate.

He is the extremists extremist. He believes in shutting down basically every governemnt institute including, the IRS, FBI, etc. He supports a national sales tax. He supports no government health care... period. He supports no welfare or government support... period. He supports no social security... period. He supports no funding for aids... period. He supports no anti discrimination laws... period. Pretty much he is an extremist on every single issue. But despite being a so called "libertarian" He wants to build a huge wall on the Mexican border and he wants a zygote defined as a human being. Yep, some libertarian...

[DJ MEW]

7. I wasn't meaning to stand up for the guy

I meant to say that on NPR he came off as being an okay guy. I know that his politics really suck and would be about the worst thing for this country since, "W".

[sarcasmo]

12. Coming from a Welfare State I get the Welfare idea, if it is allowed to exist it needs to be

overhauled. We here in Michigan have WAY to many people on welfare. Don't feed me the, they can't take care of themselves crap, I take some to Disability appointments who want a Government check because and I quote "they can't take child support out of my check Man, that's why I want my money".

[cali]

13. um, interesting that you fixate on that aspect

of Paul's platform.

[sarcasmo]

15. A sore subject with this Taxi driver.

Taking able bodied people to Disability appointments and having them tell you exactly how they are scamming makes one hate the way the Welfare system is abused.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

24. I can understand your frustration. I got the joy of hearing rich corporatists talk about

screwing over their employees and getting tax breaks.

Just as painful, believe that. MKJ

(on edit, that was a previous job which I left three months ago, I'm now a front line employee, again, yay!)

[PretzelWarrior]

2. I figured him for more of a Dungeons and Dragons fiend.

I wish David Duke would start a religious cult holed up in a compound so President Hillary Clinton can take him out.

[WilliamPitt]

3. delete

Tried to be clever, failed.

David Duke dines on feces.

[RiverStone]

10. No.

He does not deserve to eat that good.

Though if anybody could live in a septic tank, I'm sure it would be Duke. He most definitely is full of it! That dude has some major bad karma...

[cali]

6. replace "neocon" in that paragraph with

Jew, and you can see just how ugly it really is.

[Swamp Rat]

8. LOL! The kiss of death.

Thank you very much, Mr. Hitler, for fucking up my political campaign. :rofl:

[Chulanowa]

9. Well duh

Ron Paul, like most libertarians, supports the philosophy of white guys going "got mine, sucks to be you".

[cali]

11. kick

[Snarkturian Clone]

14. He's the same as the other repukes

except that he's honest, so he tells you all his nonsense up front instead of being sneaky about it.

[BurningDog]

16. 99% of the "white extremeist" support for Ron Paul comes from his stance on Israel.

Which is that they don't need our military protection.

[cali]

17. What bullshit.

It comes form his anti-immigrant and anti-welfare stance.

Oh yeah, and if you think that those who habituate Duke's site and other kindred sites, aren't really white supremacists, you're wrong.

They, really, really are. And they really, really do hate latino, blacks, jews, and other minorities.

[BurningDog]

18. Thats the other 1%

if you do a quick scroll through of the articles on that site, you'd see that most of them are anti-Jewish. There are many other candidates that share anti-immigrant and anti-welfare views, Ron Paul is unique in his stance on Israel.

[cali]

19. Are you saying you don't have a problem with that?

Please elaborate.

[BurningDog]

20. I think the OP was an attempt at Guilt by Association

Trying to say that Ron Paul is "The King of All White Supremacists". Especially since that was what they felt was important enough to put in the subject line, even though it was a chess reference.

I was trying to make the point that his support from that segment of the population was based mostly on a fairly reasonable viewpoint that many members of this board share (that the US shouldn't fight Israel's battles).

If you want to argue with that or other views he has, I have no problem, but don't marginalize and demonize him by association.

[cali]

21. Nope. I have many other objections about Paul, but like

any other candidate, he gets judged by things like who's supporting him. And that he has the enthusiastic support of world class bigots, should tell you something.

[BurningDog]

22. He also has enthusiastic support from Anti-war advocates, Privacy advocates...

drug legalization advocates, fiscal responsibility advocates, etc.

He shouldn't be dismissed as "king of pot smoking hippies, nut-job conspiracy theorists, penny pinching cheap-asses, and anti-war pussies."

[cali]

25. Fiscal responsibilit y advocates??

Translation: People who want to do away with progressive taxation, want unlimited and rapacious free trade, want to see the social safety network drowned in a bathtub and swirling down the drain, etc.

And if you're so short sighted that you're willing to put drug policy or even anti-war policy over everything decent that remains in this country, that's contemptible.

[BurningDog]

26. I am contemptible then.

I think that a decent social safety network can't exist without first addressing an unsustainable foreign policy, violations of civil rights (e.g. through the drug war), a surveillance society, and uncontrolled government spending.

I'd rather be a free citizen who gets nothing from my government than a subject that is taken care of by autocracy.

[cali]

27. You said it.

And don't advocate for Ron Paul here. Go read the posting rules.

[BurningDog]

28. I didn't, I advocated for ideas.

Specifically, ideas that are generally consistent with the Democratic party platform.

The only advocacy I did for Ron Paul is saying that the OP was unfair in its assertion that RP is the King of white supremacists. My last post was responding directly to your claim that any other issue doesn't matter when put next to a social safety net.

[cali]

32. You're dead wrong. And you DID advocate for Paul

when you said you'd vote for him over Clinton. Furthermore, it's Duke himself who's claiming that Paul is their king. And of course you're not telling the truth about what I said. I never said that social safety net issues are more important than any other issue.

Looks like you're on the wrong site. This is a site for progressives and liberals- NOT libertarians.

[Oilwellian]

30. Perhaps you've joined the wrong internet community

We are progressives on DU and would like to recommend you actually study Ron Paul's voting record. He has a progressive score of 24.06% on all issues. He is anything BUT a liberal or progressive, or Democrat.

(e.g. Air pollution under Environment)

ALL ISSUE CATEGORIES Rank Paul, Ron
(House - R)

Progressive Score (%) Rank


All issues 24.06 235/433


Aid to Less Advantaged People, at Home & Abroad (17 subcategories) 21.01 234/431


Corporate Subsidies (14 subcategories) 29.73 236/431


Education, Humanities, & the Arts (3 subcategories) 18.75 238/431


Environment (15 subcategories) 17.36 250/431


Fair Taxation (6 subcategories) 8.84 237/431


Family Planning (2 subcategories) 22.22 183/376T

Government Checks on Corporate Power (30 subcategories) 20.51 238/431


Health Care (15 subcategories) 19.64 236/431


Housing (2 subcategories) 14.29 258/431T


Human Rights & Civil Liberties (9 subcategories) 33.60 232/431


Justice for All: Civil and Criminal (7 subcategories) 32.14 230/431


Labor Rights (8 subcategories) 17.21 238/431


Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful (15 subcategories) 19.35 233/431


War & Peace (17 subcategories) 41.73 232/431

http://www.progressivepunch.org/members.jsp?member=TX14&district=14

[librechik]

23. If Ron Paul is president, you can kiss Universal Health goodbye.

Not to mention abortion rights. He really really is a libertarian (ultraconservative) guys.

I love having him out there among the freeps as a wedge issue, though. They must be going out of their teeny weeny minds.

[Rhythm and Blue]

29. David Duke is antiwar, too.

It's sick that some DUers would support Paul over Clinton, simply because he's against the war.

[Mike03]

31. *Snicker*

Now there's an endorsement to boast about.

[DS1]

33. How do you know he's King?